Description of problem:
Following applies to any coreutils version carrying coreutils-i18n-cut.patch:

$ echo 'a_long_field_wider_than_sixty_three_characters_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX::foo' > test
$ cut -d':' -f 3 test
a_long_field_wider_than_sixty_three_characters_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

$ echo 'a_shorter_field::foo' > test
$ cut -d':' -f 3 test
foo
$

This is breaking jetring / debian-keyring builds.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-8.24-107.fc24 onwards

How reproducible:
Always